by Andy Campbell | Jun 8, 2021 | Competitions, Curriculum
Calling all Key Stage Two Game Designers! Welcome to 123ICT’s last computing competition for this academic year! As learning to code is an important part of the Computing Curriculum, we thought that it would be good if our last competition of the year, which is for...
by Carol Rainbow | Jun 6, 2021 | Curriculum
The following two maths catch-up opportunities may be suitable for primary aged children and could be useful to share with parents, especially in the lead up towards the summer holiday. Splashlearn has a whole set of apps for different ages – they are all also...
by Carol Rainbow | Jun 6, 2021 | Curriculum
The following two useful reading apps, both suitable for primary aged children, may be useful to share with parents, especially in the lead up towards the summer holiday. Reading apps, including games and activities: Dotopedia, created by the Canadian Broadcasting...
by Carol Rainbow | May 28, 2021 | Curriculum
Pictures to use in class projects have been gathered by several groups – pics4learning.com is one such group. “Pics4Learning is a curated image library that is safe and free for education. Teachers and students can use the copyright-friendly photos and...
by Carol Rainbow | May 28, 2021 | Curriculum
Music for video projects can be a bit of a nightmare – using the most up to date pop song as a background is totally illegal and finding nice music that is permissible to use can be tricky. There is a lot that is offered as royalty free – but one has to pay for...
by Carol Rainbow | May 25, 2021 | Curriculum
Climate change teaching resources have recently been provided by the Educational Foundation, linked to The Economist. The Educational Foundation runs the new themed events for children, the ideas started as weekly club events but the resources can easily be used in...
by Carol Rainbow | May 25, 2021 | Curriculum
The Compassion Project is a programme that uses storytelling, reflection, videos and more to help children develop skills of empathy and understanding. The activities covered in the programme will encourage and enable them to build the qualities needed for healthy...
by Carol Rainbow | May 17, 2021 | Curriculum
Weather teaching resources are freely shared by MetLink (The Royal Meteorological, Society). It is necessary to filter the resources as everything that shows upon opening Teaching Resources page is for secondary schools. However, setting filters of “weather” and...
by Carol Rainbow | May 17, 2021 | Curriculum
99 Math – free Maths games for all! If you need a free resource to aid the catch-up after the COVID pandemic shutdowns, this site may be really useful to you. 99 Math is a maths games website, free for schools and home users. It boasts a one minute set up time,...
by Andy Campbell | May 14, 2021 | Competitions, Curriculum
123ICT On-Line Safety Competitions Closing Date Reminder As schools can be very busy places, we thought that it might be be useful to remind you about the up-and-coming closing date for our ‘Online Safety Graphics Poster’, and ‘Online Safety Comic Strip’...
